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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Richard Ray" data-source="post: 5674" data-attributes="member: 427"><p>Thanks guys. my wife got me into all this because she came to me one day with a picture of a B. Smithi and said I want one. I said " wow really"( knowing I'd be the one to take care of it, feeding and what not) so to make my lovely wife happy I started doing research on T's to see what it took to be a "keeper" and the more I learned the more I liked the thought of having one around to "watch" I never intended to hold or touch one ( as spiders scared me).... and then I took my wife out one Saturday as a surprise present to get a T to start her on her way, and we looked at our first T, a rose hair. when we asked to see it the clerk too the KK out and opened it and handed it to me quickly as the T was climbing out, and it was on my shirt with in a second and climbing up. I was panic stricken at that moment. my wife took it just in time. fast forward = now I really like these little wonders. ( I even like to hold them) now we have 12 T's from 1/2"slings  to a 5" wc pink toe female. ( funny thing is I'm the one that can't seem to stop buying them) Thanks again HQ, Bast. I love this forum.... you guys are the BEST....</p></blockquote><p></p>